English
Etymology
From mono- + -treme.
Pronunciation
Noun
monotreme (plural monotremes)
Ventral view of a female echidna, a monotreme, showing single orifice.
- (zoology) a mammal that lays eggs and has a single urogenital and digestive orifice. Only the echidnas and platypuses are included in this group
Derived terms
Translations
egg-laying mammal
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: monotrema m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 單孔目／单孔目 (Dānkǒngmù), 单孔目 (dānkǒngmù)
- Dutch: cloacadier n, snaveldier n, monotreem m
- Esperanto: monotremo
- Finnish: nokkaeläin (fi)
- French: monotrème (fr) m
- Galician: monotremo m
- German: Kloakentier (de) n
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- Icelandic: nefdýr n
- Italian: monotremo (it)
- Japanese: カモノハシ目 (ja) (kamonohashi-moku), 単孔類 (ja) (たんこうるい, tankōrui)
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- Korean: 단공류 (dan'gongnyu) (as a group)
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- Navajo: ałtʼoʼígíí biyęęzhii yiłchíhígíí
- Polish: stekowce
- Portuguese: monotremo m, monotremado (pt) m, monotrémato m
- Romanian: monotrem (ro) n, monotremă (ro) f
- Russian: однопрохо́дное (ru) n (odnoproxódnoje) (млекопита́ющее), яйцекладу́щее (ru) n (jajcekladúščeje) (млекопита́ющее), клоа́чное (ru) n (kloáčnoje) (млекопита́ющее)
- Spanish: monotrema m
- Swahili: mamalia atagaye mayai
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- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Adjective
monotreme (not comparable)
- (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.
1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy[1], published 1986, →ISBN, page 548:Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
- Synonyms: 1-treme, monoaperturate
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